The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-12-01
MISSING LINKS.
A state university is projected i'll Yer

A observation-disclosures bear was
killed recently in Penola county,
Mississippi.
At point in deep ravine two miles
from Wallingford, n. Y, ice, it is said,
forms the year round.
The Stewart mansion in New York
is guarded by private watchmen at all
hours of the day or night.
There are ten thousand tons of
alfalfa in Mason valley, Nevada, Which
the farmers have been unable to dis
| pose Of
The city of Birmingham, Ala, is
| about to tunnel the Georgia Pacific, to
make passage-way for vehicles and
pedestrians.
A polar bear recently brought to
San Francisco is treated to a bath of
ice-water every half hour to make him
feel at home.
The two largest gymnasiums in the
world are that owned by the Liverpool
Young Mems Christian association and
Harvard's.
The Springvale my Aduocate says
pointedly: "The woman who lost her
bangs can find them where she pulled
up the plants"
1t is stated that the smokestack of an
Allentown Pa.) thread-mill, 227 feet
high, will, when finished, be the loftiest
in the United States.
Montana paid during the present
year in bounties for the killing of
squirrels, wolves, prairie dogs, bears,
and coyotes $97, 625, 10.
The output of the mines, furnaces,
and factories of the Birmingham,
Ala, district is estimated to bring
a gross receipt of $50, 900, 900 per
annum.
Sixteen army officers and 1876 privates
are at present confined in the military
prison at Santiago, awaiting trials or
serving out sentences.
Floyd Tuft the young giant of West
vile, VT, is Is years old and weighs
125 pounds. He is as strong as an OK
and can easily shoulder two bushels of
corn.
A German suicide in New York left
note in which he said he was sorry
to trouble his landlady but the
weather compelled him to kill himself
indoors.
Phoenix, Arizona, newspapers are
agitating the sorghum industry for the
Salt river valley, and steps have been
taken to form a company for the manu-
facture of sugar.
At Oxford, Pa the other day, a
sparrow hoped upon pile Of CLANS
and was suddenly imprisoned by one
Of the bivalves, which closed its shell
| together over the birds foot.
A resident of Marietta, O., is said to
have sold his daughter for $40, and
taken half of his pay in hard cider. 1t
is supposed he subsequently treated
himself to long and beastly drunk.
A new college course in scientific
temperance" has been added to the
| curriculum of the Grant Memorial
university at Athens, Tenn. 1t is the
first of the kind in any collegiate insti-
luton in the world.
On the tombstone of Martha Annie
Moore, whose grave is in Old Wilmer,
Ga, is this curious epitaph: Boys,
lon't shoot birds around Marthas
grave" The grave is in the wild wood
where game is plenty.
A three thousand-foot well is being
sunk at San Diego, Cal. 1t is hoped
5hat supply of water equivalent to
TWO million gallons in every twenty
four hours will be obtained from
hat and another deep well now being
sunk.
twenty-five natives of Guadalupe
guard their collegiate church and the
sacred image of the Virgin day and
hight. They do not propose that the
mage shall be removed for a short
time, even while the interior repairs Of
the church are in progress.
The war sword of the celebrated
raider, Gen. John Morgan, is on ex-
| hibitiOn at the G. A. r. fair at Wells
vile, 0, The sword was stolen at the
! time of Morgan's capture, when he
was in the hotel at that place, and is
now the property of II. II. Whitacre.
A woman of Jersey City, n. j.,
recently brought home a strange egg
as the souvenir of a trip and placed it
on the parlor table. One week after
| she was surprised to see a little turtle
break the shell of the egg and slowly
crawl out, The heat of tie room had
| Matched it.
| Russian literature is the prevailing
craze in Boston. Last winter Brown
ing and Shelly were the idols of the
cultured bean-eaters, but now every
thing that has the mark of Stepniak,
Iolsto1, and Gogoi stamped upon it is
| given the place of honor in the
parlors.
A man who had undergone seven
days Imprisonment at Leicester, Eng,
for refusing to allow his child to be
vaccinated was greeted with cheers by
an assemblage of over a thousand peo-
| pie on his release. Anti-vaccination
| resolutions were passed, and the
authorities denounced for sending him
to Jail.
In an Albany clearinghouse num-
Der of ladies for over two years sat to-
| gether at one dining table. During
that time nine persons residing in the
vicinity died. One of the ladies at the
table spoke of the matter few days
| ago, and remarked. Il wonder who
will be the tenth?" Within week she
| herself was number ten.
According to the Paris Morning NeWS
| there is to be a test of the devotion of
| Poil'crat, the shoemaker and socialist
orator, to the principle he has pro-
fessed. That paper says that his fellow
socialists are about to call meeting to
determine what shall be done with a
legacy of SS,000,000 bequeathed to
Poillerat by brother who died in
America
u novel suit was before the courts in
New York city a few days ago Tie
writer of q small text book left his
manuscript with a well-known school,
book publishing house for examination.
At the end of 3 months he got answer
| that it was declined. The foolish man
sued the publishers for s., 900 damages,
but the case was thrown out at once.
Some time ago Emily ID, Wheeler